Posted on 07/12/2025 4:55:16 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Correction, if there were 20,000 homeless, that’s $36,200 each, for one year. 20,000 homeless would be 200 encampments of 100 people.
At what point do people rebel and say we are not supporting this nonsense anymore? Answer: when everyone leaves Portland. Haha, that will never happen.
Photo....
New Yorker: Amazing how they keep that city so neat.
Variation on Jeff Foxworthy’s redneck: “Amazed at how the gas stations get their rest rooms so clean.”
Photo....
Gray haired man-bunned hippie: “I got dibs on that couch on the left for my front porch of my shared house. We can recreate the sleeve of the first Crosby, Stills and Nash album”.
I wonder what percentage was for “administration costs”..
Or would they even want to?!
32,000 per homeless?
Try 3,200 per homeless.
The other 90% went to the beaurocracy if not more..
They need to be eradicated. Filth and disease wherever they camp. Why so much trash and garbage? Clearly had an improper upbringing. They get moved from one place to another, and taxpayers are on the hook to clean up the mess.
Homelessness is a major industry in Portland. Bureaucratic industry, that is.
Stated.....”Portland metro area spent $724 million on homeless services in 2024”
Truth - Portland handed out $724 million of freebees to people who refuse to work.
The Portland Homeless Industrial Complex is basking in their $724 million.
The actual people living on the street?
Not so much.
The highest estimate of the homeless population I found for the housed and unhoused homeless in the Portland Metro area is ~20K and the number is for 2025. It also includes 2 counties not covered by the $724 million in spending. The spending was for 2024 when the homeless population was thought to be a little lower. Now the only number that really matters is how much is it costing to house a homless person and that of course is the only number they are not giving us. But of course we can figure that out now.
$724,000,000/20,000 = $36,200
So call it $3,000/month which is 3x my mortgage for a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath house. But OK I live in the boonies in a low income state, not the glorious Rose City. But wait they estimate 6000 of the 20,000 are unhoused so the real cost of housing one of these drugged out drunken zombies is more on the order of $4,000+ a month anf the number of homeless and the cost of housing them increases every year despite the huge price tag. Something stinks in all this. Where is the money actually going? Nobody will tell us, but I am willing to guess a lot of it ends up in pockets that fund Democrat donors and Antifa paymasters because it doesn’t $4000 a month to provide basic shelter to one person.
“...14% came from federal dollars.”
No. There is no such thing as ‘federal dollars’ as the cash is usurped by the feds from us citizens for redistribution. Or the feds just print it causing inflation.
I don’t live in Portland but I’m gonna have a Madz. 😄
“Portland metro area spent $724 million on homeless services in 2024”
and what did it get them? ... more homeless ... a lot like feeding pigeons ...
Or stray cats. And then you wonder why more of them keep showing up.
Portland has a 2025 population of 615,267. This is costing them $1,200 each person!
724 million, running second to former NYC mayor deblasios wife’s 850 million for her mental health initiative that she doesnot know where it all went, but we do. And no one even asked the question
If they are only spending Oregon money...who cares???
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